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Draft mode for V8.1 and new feature previews

Hi everyone - a few updates today!Draft mode for V8.1Each draft mode generation creates 24 images at a lower resolution and quality.Click "Vary" on im…

Hardware announcement livestream

We'll be unveiling our first secret hardware project tomorrow, Wednesday 6/17. It's ambitious, (physically!) big, and unexpected.There will be a lives…

Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning

UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.…

Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone

AI runs at the speed of light. More and more, that light is made in Texas. Coherent broke ground today on an expanded manufacturing building in Sherman, Texas. …

Hands Free, AIs Forward: NVIDIA XR AI Brings Agents to AR Glasses

NVIDIA XR AI is now available in public beta, giving developers a framework for building multimodal AI agents for AR glasses and XR devices.  …

SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon

SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.…

Introducing container caching in Amazon SageMaker AI for faster model scaling

Today, we’re excited to announce container image caching for Amazon SageMaker AI inference, the next major advancement in our faster scaling optimization journe…

Claude Code v2.1.179

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Microsoft's Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based billing and may tap DeepSeek

Microsoft is weighing a fine-tuned version of Deepseek V4 as a cheaper model option for Copilot Cowork. The company is also switching to usage-based billing, si…

Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment

OpenAI introduces Deployment Simulation, a method to predict AI model behavior before deployment using real conversation data to improve safety and evaluation a…

Berlin court rules Google's AI Overviews are just a new search format, not original content

A Berlin court has ruled that Google's AI-generated summaries are just a "new search result format" and that Google has no "decisive influence" over the content…

“Excellent Choice”: Jay Clayton Earns Broad Praise as President Trump’s DNI Nominee

President Donald J. Trump’s nomination of Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence is drawing strong bipartisan acclaim across Capitol Hill and beyond. …

Parallelize speculative decoding with P-EAGLE on Amazon SageMaker AI

This post walks you through how to use P-EAGLE directly within Amazon SageMaker AI. It will demonstrate how to select a compatible model from the SageMaker Jump…

4 ways we’re using our MCP server at Figma

HPE AI Factory With NVIDIA Expands for the Era of Agents

Enterprises are moving agentic AI from proof of concept to production — and the next generation of AI factories are built for the era of agents. At HPE Discover…

SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic

Just two trading days after its IPO, Elon Musk's SpaceX is buying AI coding startup Anysphere. The deal is meant to help the struggling xAI division catch up wi…

As America turns 250, unlocking the next generation's potential is key

As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, I've been reflecting on the generations that built the country's success and what it will take to prepare t…

Fastest, Largest, Strongest: NVIDIA Blackwell Sweeps MLPerf Training 6.0

Every breakthrough AI model starts the same way: with a training run. The infrastructure running those training jobs shapes everything: how fast teams can itera…

DOJ invokes national security to defend xAI's unpermitted gas turbines in NAACP lawsuit

US Justice Department calls xAI's chatbot Grok essential to military operations, defending its controversial gas turbines. The article DOJ invokes national secu…

White House CEQ to Convene Leading Innovators with Promising Permitting Technology

CEQ invites industry to showcase solutions at the inaugural Permitting Innovators Expo. Today, the Council on Environmental Quality, in collaboration with NASA’…

Prompt Hungary: The impact of AI on the competitiveness of the economy

AI could become a powerful growth engine for the country by helping overcome the economy’s challenges and limitations, and generating improved productivity and …

The agentic advertising economy: From attention to action

As AI changes how consumers discover products and impact is measured, advertising value will shift to the players that can shape what is seen, selected, and pur…

How Siemens "slices the elephant," advancing agentic workflows for industrial software development

For technology companies like Siemens, software is the nervous system of factories, energy grids, and transportation networks worldwide. As a global leader in i…

Frontier post-training recipe review with Finbarr Timbers

"Interview" #18…

Bye bye Fable

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How easily can Russian propaganda fool AI models? A new benchmark finds out

The Institute of the Estonian Language has released a benchmark measuring how susceptible AI language models are to Russian propaganda. The article How easily c…

DeepSeek takes outside money for the first time at a $50 billion valuation

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has raised more than 50 billion yuan - about $7.4 billion - in its first external funding round. The article DeepSeek takes outside …

Anthropic backs off unpopular billing overhaul as price war with OpenAI looms

Anthropic has pulled back its planned billing change for the Claude Agent SDK just before launch. Instead of separate credits, the SDK and third-party apps will…

OpenAI burned through $34 billion last year

OpenAI spent $34 billion in the past year, far more than the year before. The article OpenAI burned through $34 billion last year appeared first on The Decoder.…